Means for applying paraffin or the like to match-splints.



H. A. RUDD. MEANS FOR APPLYING PARAFPIN OR THE LIKE TO MATCH SPLINTS.

APPLICATION FILED APILZB, 1914.

Patented Feb. 9, 1915.

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HENRY A. RUDD, 0F BARBERTON, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO THE DIAMOND MATCH COMPANY, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, A CORPORATION OF ILLINOIS.

MEANS FOR APPLYING PABAFFIN OR THE LIKE TO MATCH-SPLINTS.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, HENRY A. RUDD, a citizen of the United States, and resident of Barberton, in the county of Summit and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Means for Applying Paraffin or the like to Match-Splints, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to means for applying paraffin wax, or analogous substance, to match splints during their progress through a match making machine.

The object of my invention is to provide an apparatus of simple and efiicient construction and operation whereby measured quantities of molten paraffin or the like shall be brought into the path of the free ends of the traveling splints and shall be maintained therein for a prolonged period so as to effect the economical application of the paraffin to the splints.

To this end my invention consists in the combination with the traveling splint carrier of a match machine, of a pocketed parafHn-applying element mounted beneath said carrier, means for moving said element in a path longitudinally of and parallel with said carrier, and means for supplying paraffin to the pockets of said element, whereby the free ends of the splints depending from the carrier are caused progressively to enter the pockets of said element and remain therein for a prolonged period of their travel.

The invention also comprises novel features of construction and combinations of parts which will be hereinafter fully described and claimed.

In the drawings Figure 1 is a longitudinal vertical section of an apparatus embodying a preferred form of my invention. Fig. 2 is a transverse vertical section thereof, as on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a longitudinal vertical section, enlarged, of the upper portion of the paraiiin-reservoir; the para carrier, and adjacent sections of the loaded splint carrier. Fig. 4: is a perspective view of one of the pocketed sections of the paraffin carrier.

5 designates a part of the splint carrier of a match making machine, said carrier, in

the form illustrated, comprising a series of hingedly connected plate sections provided with transverse rows of perforations adapted to receive and hold the ends of match Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed April 28, 1914. Serial No. 834,913.

Patented Feb. 9, 1915.

splints, and provided also at or adjacent theirouter edges with rack teeth 6 in mesh with actuating gear wheels located at intervals throughout the length of the carrier. Two of these gear wheels are indicated at 7, the same being fast on a shaft 8 having its bearings in brackets on the frame work 9 and bearing a sprocket wheel 9 which is driven by a sprocket chain 10 from a suit-,

able source of power.

11 designates a parafiin reservoir which is located beneath the path of the splint carrier and its depending splints. This reservoir comprises a steam-jacketed tank, provided with a suitably-disposed overflow 12 to maintain a constant level of the molten paraffin within the tank, as usual.

, 13 designates an endless carrier, termed a paraflin carrier, which is mounted to travel within and longitudinally of the reservoir through extended paths below and The paraffin carrier is supported by wheels 17, preferably polygonal in form, which are mounted to rotate within the tank 11, said wheels being suitably-spaced in pairs on transverse shafts 18 supported in bearings at or near the respective ends of the tank. On the inner walls of the tank, directly above the paraffin level, are affixed horizontal bars 19 which constitute guides for the respective longitudinal edges of the upper stretch of the paraiiin carrier. In mesh with the rack-teeth 15 of the paraffin carrier are gear-wheels 23 fast on a shaft 21 having its hearings in brackets 22 on the sides of the tank. Fast on one end of this shaft is a gear wheel 20 which is connected by an idler gear wheel 24 with a similar wheel 25 on the driven shaft 8 above referred to. Thus the paraffin carrier is impelled concurrently with the splint carrier, the upper stretch of the former traveling in the same direction and at the same speed as of the splint carrier. The traveling carriers are in such spaced relation to each other that the free ends of the depending rows of splints-on the splint carrier successively enter the pockets of the paraflin earner, travel therein through an extended horizontal path, and then escape from the pockets, as shown.

By the construction above described it will be seen that in the progress of the paraliin carrier the parafiin contained in the tank is supplied to the pockets of said carrierand thereby carried above; the level of the paralfin in the tank and into the horizontal path of the depending ends of the splints,

the thus measured quantities of paraflin being maintained in the path of the splints a sufiicient interval of time to insure an eco nomical and efiicient impregnation of the splints with paraffin; that is to say, the grooves in the chain are so proportioned and the relative speed oftravel thereof with the splints is such that only suflicient paraflin is taken up by the ends of the splints to facilitate the transmission of the flame to the wood when the match head is ignited. It will also be seen that excess paraflin is drained from the pockets as the carrier 13 rounds the wheel 17 at the right-hand end of the tank, the filling of the pockets being regulated by the level of the paraffin and the speed of the carrier. Further that asv the pockets enter the heated paraffin at the left-. hand end of the tank and travel thence through the paraffin, there is no liability of the clogging of the pockets with the solidified substance.

I claim 1. The combination of a splint carrier, 9. pocketed paraflin-nnnlving element below the adjacent portion 4 and longitudinally of said reservoir through extended aths below and above the level of the paraflin, a traveling splint carrier above and longitudinally of the upper path of the said chain, and means for impelling the said chain concurrently with the splint carrier, whereby the free ends of the splints are caused to enter the pockets of the chain and remain therein for a prolonged period of their travel.

3. The combmatlon of a reservoir for parafiin, wheels mounted torotate therein near the respective ends of the reservoir, an endv less chain of pocketed paraliin-applying sections supported on said wheels, a guide to support the upper stretch of said chain above the level of the paraffin within the' reservoir, a traveling splint carrier above and longitudinally of the upper stretch of the chain, and co-acting gearing whereby the adjacent portions of the said carrier and the chain are concertedly driven.

Signed at Barber-ton in the county of Summit and State of Ohio this twenty third day of April A. D. 1914:.

HENRY A. RUDD.

Witnesses T. A. JOHNSTON, E. A. JACOBS. 

